The Mary Kay Is My Godmother Giveaway – Before & After Photos!

As you know I’m all about beauty. How to maintain it even if I have to drink the blood of virgin choirboys. Even if I have to do 500 military press push-ups in a pair of Jessica Simpson platforms. And yes, even if I have to give up eating McFlurries. So you can imagine my joy at receiving this in the mail from my Mary Kay fairy godmother:

And this:

I love make-up. I pretty much looked like I had black eyes throughout junior high. Child services showed up once only to discover I’d been over-zealously applying Root Beer Lip Smackers and black eyeliner. I like to think that since then my make-up aesthetic has become less Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby and more Grace Kelly in Rear Window.

So I was thrilled to try out my evolved skills with my Mary Kay booty. I invited a crew of my neighborhood knocking-on-the-menopausal-ceiling mom friends over on Sunday and I wove my magic upon them:

Below: I never wear brightly colored lip gloss because I am lip challenged. I always end up looking like Cloris Leachman on Dancing With The Stars. But I love the Mary Kay Mango Tango and even the Rock ‘N Red. I’d given up on me and red lipstick. But I’m back, baby!

Kiss me, Mwah!

As you may have guessed, I received all of these products from Mary Kay, but I want you all to know I get approached to write reviews all the time, for various products. I only blog about products I love. And I am sold on Mary Kay. They’ve saved me from matte lip stick, and their eye shadows flatter women of a certain age. I wholeheartedly endorse their products, and there isn’t even a pink Cadillac in it for me. But I might get one anyway! I aspire to iconography!

Great news – if you’d like to try out some Mary Kay products you may be in luck! I am giving away a fabulous Mary Kay gift basket to one lucky winner. All you have to do to enter is tell me your greatest beauty tip.

Rules:

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This giveaway is open to US Residents age 19 or older. Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail. You have 72 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.

You all look really beautiful!!! My tip is this: To line lips as you get to a “certain” age, use a blond Maybelline eyebrow pencil. It doesn’t really show up but the wax in it prevents the lipstick from traveling. Like you I love, love, love makeup.

I love the Mary Kay TimeWise products!! My beauty tip is this: even if you have oily skin (like me!), you should still use moisturizer every day, even in the summer. If you deprive your skin of moisturizer, your skin will produce MORE oil to compensate. That is the opposite of what I want!!!

My greatest beauty tip is….. if nothing else is possible, running late to work, school, not time for primping….Always keep a multi-use product (bb cream or powder/foundation combo compact) , a good tube of Masacra and a eyebrow/eyeliner duo pencil handy as well as a neutral tinted gloss…. 4 products make you look alive anytime anyplace

Although I love Mary Kay eye make-up remover, my mother taught me to use baby oil to remove my eye make-up. It’s a little greasy but it works and after you wipe the excess off, rub what’s left and your eyes and eye area will always look great. She’s done this for years, and in her late sixty’s has no crows feet.

My best beauty advice is LESS IS MORE! I learned this from my mother and it has been a great thing to follow. Mary Kay provides great ways to look au natural while still having fun and enjoyinf makeup products 🙂

I LOVE Mary Kay products. I have used them for the past eighteen years and swear this is the reason that no one believes that I have children that are in college. My beauty tip is dusting my eyelashes with a bit of loose powder before putting on my mascara. This helps them to look a bit thicker and longer. Your eyelashes can never be too thick or too long!